UConnectCare didn’t do due diligence in siting recovery center on Butts Road in Albion

Editor:

UConnectCare recently built a recovery center for women that allows children to live with their mothers during recovery on Butts Road in Albion.

I have always agreed with the need for the center and the thought behind it was 100% true. What was bad is the location of where they built that center. They built that center in a poor location, showing little regard for the land they were disturbing or how it was going to affect the area.

The contractors hired for the center showed little remorse for what they were doing to the neighbors of that center. They even went as far as pushing debris and other contents behind the center thru fencing and clearly posted signs onto people’s property without permission.

At the end of the previous school year the center had a paving crew for their driveway out there taking up most of the shoulders of both sides of the road. Two of my kids got home at 2:30 in the afternoon while they were out there paving. The bus driver told me he felt unsafe bringing my son and other daughter home which was an hour later due to how tied up the road was.

I had to email UConnectCare to tell them to clear out so they could  safely make it home.  To go back to the railroad underpass, it was just hit November 15th at 3 a.m., this time an ambulance tried to squeeze its way under it and got wedged underneath.  The road was shut down from roughly 3 a.m. until almost 5 a.m.

Even with the new signs you have numerous near misses of people turning around. Last week there were two accidents involving people tempting fate.

The center was finished July 5, with an open house was scheduled for Aug. 20.

Aug. 20 came and went like a gust of wind.

I have asked sources if they had any news on estimated opening. All I get told is they are waiting for final approval from the state to open.

A final approval from the state?

Meaning they did not have all their ducks in a row before starting construction and now a building that was constructed sits empty and is vacant?

The power has literally been on the building since July – 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Maybe it was just a terrible idea of building a huge center in the center of a designated wetland, when you can’t build a playground or have hiking trails due to the whole plot of land being under water once upon a time.

The best idea for this situation is they should cut their losses and move on.

Aaron Vosburgh

Albion